Panel Chair, "Literature of the American West II," Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, San Diego, November, 2013.

"Local Identities and Community-based Pedagogies: How We Relate in Teaching Composition and Rhetoric," a Plenary Speech at the Southern California Second Symposium on Composition and Rhetoric," at UC-Irvine, CA, May, 2013.

"Leo Tolstoy’s Negative Capability and Christian Sensitivity: A Comparative Reading of `Family Happiness,'” the Annual Conference on Christianity and Literature, at APU, CA, May 2013.

Discussant, Round Table, the First Annual Southern California Rhetoric and Composition Research Symposium, University of California-Irvine, April, 2012.

“A Personal Reflection: On the Necessity of the Transactional Theory for Transformational and Perspective Leaders,” US – China Symposium on Educational, Technology and Teacher Leadership, Shanghai, China, 2012.

Moderator, “Lewis’ Correspondence and the Life of Faith" and "Faith and doubt: Ethics and Aesthetics"; the C.S. Lewis Summer Institute on "The Self and the Search Meaning," Oxford and Cambridge, England, July-August, 2008.

Panel Chair, "Reflections on Cinematic Transactions between East and West," International Conference on Chinese Cinema and Asian Cinema in the Context of Globalization. Beijing China, June 6-7, 2005